Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism [Paperback]

Selected Contents: Part 1: Symposium on Properties  1. The Categorical Dimensions of the Causal Powers Brian Ellis  2. Defending Categoricalism D.M. Armstrong  3. Monistic Dispositional Essentialism Alexander Bird  Part 2: Levels of Inquiry  4. Levels of Reality and Scales of Application Patrick McGivern Part 3: Realism in Mathematics  5. Anti-Nominalistic Scientific Realism: A Defence Stathis Psillos  6. Indispensability without Platonism Anne Newstead and James Franklin  Part 4: Dispositions and Causal Powers  7. Causal Dispositionalism Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum  8. Powerful Properties and the Causal Basis of Dispositions Max Kistler  9. Four Theories of Pure Dispositions William A. Bauer Part 5: Pan-Dispositionalism  10. The Metaphysics of Pan-Dispositionalism Matthew Tugby  11. The CategoricalDispositional Distinction Sharon R. Ford  12. Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature Barbara Vetter  Part 6: Natural Kinds  13. The Metaphysics of Determinable Kinds Emma Tobin  14. Scientific Kinds without Essences Corinne L. Bloch

While the phrase metaphysics of science has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of scienceand the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innol£/